Why on earth would this office think it was OK to use tracer rounds for police work? Denver should pay and then pursue subrogation against the ex employee.
We are seeing the results of the federal government’s effort to militarize local police departments across the country; this has been a decades-long endeavor but it went into overdrive following 9/11. This has been exacerbated by an American culture that celebrates violence and unquestioned submission to authority. Today’s small town of 10,000 is likely to have a militarized police department complete with SWAT team. These teams generally respond wearing full battle dress- black baklava mask, armor, military fatigues, and assault rifle. A hundred protesters carrying signs are now likely to be met by a thousand officers in full battle dress, riot shields, tear gas, sound cannons, batons, and militarized high-velocity tear gas (described by Meghan Kelley as “basically a food product” but coincidentally banned for use in warfare by international chemical weapons treaties), and as Denver’s national convention demonstrated these officers might even be wearing t-shirts underneath the armor that depict a cartoon officer swinging a baton with the caption “we come out early to beat the crowds”.
Why on earth would this office think it was OK to use tracer rounds for police work? Denver should pay and then pursue subrogation against the ex employee.
We are seeing the results of the federal government’s effort to militarize local police departments across the country; this has been a decades-long endeavor but it went into overdrive following 9/11. This has been exacerbated by an American culture that celebrates violence and unquestioned submission to authority. Today’s small town of 10,000 is likely to have a militarized police department complete with SWAT team. These teams generally respond wearing full battle dress- black baklava mask, armor, military fatigues, and assault rifle. A hundred protesters carrying signs are now likely to be met by a thousand officers in full battle dress, riot shields, tear gas, sound cannons, batons, and militarized high-velocity tear gas (described by Meghan Kelley as “basically a food product” but coincidentally banned for use in warfare by international chemical weapons treaties), and as Denver’s national convention demonstrated these officers might even be wearing t-shirts underneath the armor that depict a cartoon officer swinging a baton with the caption “we come out early to beat the crowds”.
Because that’s not how subrogation works.
Regardless of that, the condition of respondeat superior would apply.